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HBO releases first trailer for Lovecraft Country from Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams

May 1, 2020 by Gary Collinson

HBO has released the first teaser trailer for the Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams-produced series Lovecraft Country. Based on Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel of the same name, the drama stars Jonathan Majors, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Courtney B. Vance, and Michael Kenneth Williams; watch it here…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWEASasO-tI&feature=youtu.be

The series follows Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) as he joins up with his friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) and his Uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) to embark on a road trip across 1950s Jim Crow America in search of his missing father (Michael Kenneth Williams). This begins a struggle to survive and overcome both the racist terrors of white America and the terrifying monsters that could be ripped from a Lovecraft paperback.

Lovecraft Country premieres on HBO this August.

 

Filed Under: Gary Collinson, News, Television, Trailers Tagged With: Courtney B. Vance, J.J. Abrams, Jonathan Majors, Jordan Peele, Jurnee Smollett-Bell, Lovecraft Country, Michael Kenneth Williams

About Gary Collinson

Gary Collinson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Flickering Myth. He is a film, television and digital content writer and producer, whose work includes the gothic horror feature The Baby in the Basket and the suspense thriller Death Among the Pines. He is also the author of Holy Franchise, Batman! Bringing the Caped Crusader to the Screen.

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